THE PROTOCOLS OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION

12. When comes the time of our overt rule, the time to manifest its blessing, we shall remake all legislatures,
all our laws will be brief, plain, stable, without any kind of interpretations, so that anyone will be in a position
to know them perfectly. The main feature which will run right through them is submission to orders, and
this principle will be carried to a grandiose height. Every abuse will then disappear in consequence of the
responsibility of all down to the lowest unit before the higher authority of the representative of power.
Abuses of power subordinate to this last instance will be so mercilessly punished that none will be found
anxious to try experiments with their own powers. We shall follow up jealously every action of the administration
on which depends the smooth running of the machinery of the State, for slackness in this produces
slackness everywhere; not a single case of illegality or abuse of power will be left without exemplary punishment.
13. Concealment of guilt, connivance between those in the service of the administration - all this kind of evil
will disappear after the very first examples of severe punishment. The aureole of our power demands suitable,
that is, cruel, punishments for the slightest infringement, for the sake of gain, of its supreme prestige.
The sufferer, though his punishment may exceed his fault, will count as a soldier falling on the administrative
field of battle in the interest of authority, principle and law, which do not permit that any of those who
hold the reins of the public coach should turn aside from the public highway to their own private paths. FOR
EXAMPLES OUR JUDGES WILL KNOW THAT WHENEVER THEY FEEL DISPOSED TO
PLUME THEMSELVES ON FOOLISH CLEMENCY THEY ARE VIOLATING THE LAW OF
JUSTICE WHICH IS INSTITUTED FOR THE EXEMPLARY EDIFICATION OF MEN BY PEN-
ALTIES FOR LAPSES AND NOT FOR DISPLAY OF THE SPIRITUAL QUALITIES OF THE
JUDGES .... Such qualities it is proper to show in private life, but not in a public square which is the educationally
basis of human life.
14. Our legal staff will serve not beyond the age of 55, firstly because old men more obstinately hold to
prejudiced opinions, and are less capable of submitting to new directions, and secondly because this will
give us the possibility by this measure of securing elasticity in the changing of staff, which will thus the
more easily bend under our pressure: he who wishes to keep his place will have to give blind obedience to
deserve it. In general, our judges will be elected by us only from among those who thoroughly understand
that the part they have to play is to punish and apply laws and not to dream about the manifestations of liberalism
at the expense of the educational scheme of the State, as the GOYIM in these days imagine it to be ....
This method of shuffling the staff will serve also to explode any collective solidarity of those in the same
service and will bind all to the interests of the government upon which their fate will depend. The young
generation of judges will be trained in certain views regarding the inadmissibility of any abuses that might
disturb the established order of our subjects among themselves.
15. In these days the judges of the GOYIM create indulgences to every kind of crimes, not having a just understanding
of their office, because the rulers of the present age in appointing judges to office take no care to
inculcate in them a sense of duty and consciousness of the matter which is demanded of them. As a brute
beast lets out its young in search of prey, so do the GOYIM give to them for what purpose such place was
created. This is the reason why their governments are being ruined by their own forces through the acts of
their own administration.
16. Let us borrow from the example of the results of these actions yet another lesson for our government.
17. We shall root out liberalism from all the important strategic posts of our government on which depends
the training of subordinates for our State structure. Such posts will fall exclusively to those who have been
trained by us for administrative rule. To the possible objection that the retirement of old servants will cost
the Treasury heavily, I reply, firstly, they will be provided with some private service in place of what they
lose, and, secondly, I have to remark that all the money in the world will be concentrated in our hands, consequently
it is not our government that has to fear expense.
WE SHALL BE CRUEL